US slaughter plants unlikely to find EU market

American Equus caballus slaughter plants looking to reopen their doors volition non move selling heart into the European Union, according to the Equine Welfare Alliance.

The Equus caballus advocacy grouping said its inquiries alongside European Union officials made it clear that American Equus caballus heart would non run across electrical flow requirements.

The European Union has been rocked inwards recent months past times a scandal involving contamination of processed beef products alongside Equus caballus meat.

Authorities across at to the lowest degree a dozen European nations own got been investigating, suggesting the contamination resulted from either gross incompetence of deliberate subsitution.

In recent weeks, several shuttered cattle slaughter plants own got clamored for the the States Department of Agriculture to supply Equus caballus heart inspections.

Valley Meats, inwards New Mexico, has publicly indicated its wish to opened upward inwards every bit piffling every bit 3 weeks.

However, the Equine Welfare Alliance says it volition own got to create together with hence without the might to sell to the European Union, which is the principal marketplace for the States Equus caballus meat.

The alliance – a dues-free umbrella arrangement alongside over 275 fellow member organizations together with over K private members worldwide inwards eighteen countries – said it had received confirmation from European Union regime that “by virtue of Commission determination 2011/163/EU the the States is non authorized to export horsemeat to the EU”.

The determination was made inwards 2011, when the USDA did non comply alongside novel regulations requiring submittal of a drug balance command program, the alliance said.

Approval of such an application requires extensive review, too every bit audits together with tin own got upward to several years to complete.

The European Union authority, SANCO, went on to say: “Our Directorate General, upward to now, does non tape a recent balance monitoring innovation on Equus caballus heart submitted past times USDA”.

This, the alliance said, meant the procedure had all the same to begin.

The scandal over Equus caballus heart beingness substituted for beef inwards a myriad of products, too every bit the finding of the banned drug phenylbutazone inwards about of those products, has farther dimmed the prospects for a lifting of the ban.

The alliance’s John Kingdom of the Netherlands explains the bleak prospects for private Equus caballus slaughter plants inwards the US, saying: “The plants volition own got no access to the markets fifty-fifty if the European Union ban is lifted because the distribution is controlled past times a few multi-nationals, together with those expecting to contract alongside these companies should head the even out of Natural Valley Farms (SK Canada) which lost millions trying to create so.”

 

 

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